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The garden is a place for learning, sharing and coming together. Throughout the year we host workshops, working bees, community events and opportunities to connect with other gardeners. You might come to learn how to grow your own food, lend a hand in the garden, share your knowledge or simply enjoy being part of a welcoming community.

There is always something growing

❋ Upcoming Events

Tani Tei En Open Garden

19 & 20 September • 9am – 4.30pm • Currumbin Valley
Mark your calendars, this Open Garden only takes place one weekend every two years and you wouldn’t want to miss it. Explore 11 acres of tranquil gardens, rainforests, a stunning Japanese teahouse and lake. It’s the perfect family-friendly day out!

❋ Workshops

Mirielle is holding an Espalier workshop on Saturday 11th July at 8am.

❋ Working Bees

Sunday 16th August at 1PM

Thursday 20th August at 11AM

❋ A Chance to Connect

We're a volunteer-run community garden tucked behind the Tugun Community Centre. Plots are affordable, the company's warm, and everyone's welcome.

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."
— Audrey Hepburn

Upcoming Events

September

Tani Tei En Open Garden

19 & 20 September • 9am – 4.30pm • Currumbin Valley
Tani Tei En is a special community event bringing together food, gardening, creativity and connection.

The event provides an opportunity for Southern Beaches Community Garden to share the garden with the wider community, celebrate local growers and raise funds to support the future of the garden.

The event is a huge community effort, with volunteers coming together to create food stalls, activities, garden displays and experiences for visitors.

Garden-grown plants and seedlings
Homemade cakes, slices, biscuits, jams and preserves
Fresh food stalls
Tea served in beautiful china cups
Children's activities
Garden produce
Raffles and prizes
Community connection

October

TBA

November

TBA

December

TBA

January

TBA

Workshops

Together, we pause to consider our goals, hopes, and direction. This is about aligning with ourselves and with the journey ahead. This is a chance to reconnect with what brought you here—your questions, your hopes, your turning points—and consider how they’ve shifted or deepened.

22nd Feb

Worm Farming 101, Bring your old newspapers. We'll bring the worms.

2nd March

Seedling Giveaway, Free native seedlings at the gate, while they last.

October

TBA

November

TBA

December

TBA

Working Bee’s

We explore the possibilities beyond this moment, making space for growth, action, and forward momentum. As we end our time together, we honor the experience, the growth, and the connections made along the way.

September

9:00 – 9:30am

October

11:00am

November

12:30pm

December

2:00pm

January

6:30pm

  • “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”

    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

  • “If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener.”

    —J.C. Raulston

  • "There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments."

    Janet Kilburn Phillips

  • “My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant’s point of view.”

    —Fred Dale

  • “In almost every garden, the land is made better, and so is the gardener.“

    —Robert Rodale

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I am ready to GROW